1 Corinthians 9:5

World English Bible (2000)

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

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  • Matt 8:14 : 14 When Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother lying sick with a fever.
  • John 1:42 : 42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, "You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas" (which is by interpretation, Peter).
  • Acts 1:14 : 14 All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.
  • 1 Cor 7:7 : 7 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
  • Gal 1:19 : 19 But of the other apostles I saw no one, except James, the Lord's brother.
  • 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
  • 1 Tim 4:3 : 3 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
  • 1 Tim 5:2 : 2 the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.
  • Titus 1:6 : 6 if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
  • 1 Cor 7:15 : 15 Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
  • 1 Cor 7:39 : 39 A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.
  • Rom 16:1 : 1 I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant of the assembly that is at Cenchreae,
  • 1 Cor 1:12 : 12 Now I mean this, that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," "I follow Apollos," "I follow Cephas," and, "I follow Christ."
  • John 2:12 : 12 After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.
  • Song 4:9-9 : 9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck. 10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!
  • Song 4:12 : 12 A locked up garden is my sister, my bride; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.
  • Song 5:1-2 : 1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Friends Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved. Beloved 2 I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: "Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night."
  • Matt 12:46-50 : 46 While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him. 47 One said to him, "Behold, your mother and your brothers stand outside, seeking to speak to you." 48 But he answered him who spoke to him, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?" 49 He stretched out his hand towards his disciples, and said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers! 50 For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother."
  • Matt 13:55 : 55 Isn't this the carpenter's son? Isn't his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?
  • Mark 1:30 : 30 Now Simon's wife's mother lay sick with a fever, and immediately they told him about her.
  • Mark 6:3 : 3 Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" They were offended at him.
  • Luke 6:15 : 15 Matthew; Thomas; James, the son of Alphaeus; Simon, who was called the Zealot;

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    1Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren't you my work in the Lord?

    2If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

    3My defense to those who examine me is this.

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  • 1 Cor 9:6-8
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    6Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

    7What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

    8Do I speak these things according to the ways of men? Or doesn't the law also say the same thing?

  • 1 Cor 9:11-12
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    11If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?

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    8neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you;

    9not because we don't have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

  • 1 Cor 7:2-7
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    2But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

    3Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

    4The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

    5Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

    6But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

    7Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

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    6nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

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    5For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

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    12But to the rest I--not the Lord--say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

  • 1 Cor 7:15-17
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    15Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

    16For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

    17Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

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    25Now there were with us seven brothers. The first married and died, and having no seed left his wife to his brother.

  • 1 Cor 7:29
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    29But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

  • 1 Tim 5:9
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    9Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

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    25Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

  • 1 Cor 11:11
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    11Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

  • 1 Cor 7:39-40
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    39A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.

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    22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

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    16If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don't let the assembly be burdened; that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

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    9But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.

    10But to the married I command--not I, but the Lord--that the wife not leave her husband

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    9and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.

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    5Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

  • 1 Cor 7:35
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    35This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

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    1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.

  • Eph 5:22
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    22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

  • Gal 2:14
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    14But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

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    5to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.

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    18What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

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    6Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

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    14I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

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    8For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,

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    27Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

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    1Therefore, when we couldn't stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

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    8Therefore, though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

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    12But I don't permit a woman to teach, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness.